Running is acammunity

Running is a community (I know that this is the exact same thing that the author said, but I actually do run everyday with a cross country team).

This group is made a community by the common interests within the group of people. This community of runners is held together by blood, sweat, and tears(their common interests and goals).

Within this group of runners they share the interest of being competing, have the need of success and fitness, and their values include hard work, competitiveness and drive.

In this group their background (such as history), competitiveness (when taken to far), arrogance (when in abundance), and the type of speed (such as the distance they run) work against each other to unglue or rip apart the community.

In this community I feel as if I am the “Heinz 59”, or the “Jack of all trades”, because I am the bridge that fills in the gaps of the community. I am a middle distance runner so I am the most versatile on the team. This means that I can do distance races like the two mile or short distance like the 200. In that aspect I can relate to each runner, and because I am in the middle of two totally different types of races I have the hardest race, the 800. This also earns me a lot of respect, so I can lead the team.

This community is by far one of my favorite communities to be apart of. First we are all in shape and we feel good most of the time. Second we get respect from our peers who think that running is so hard and that it is a torture. Then there is that family bond. The family bond is there no matter how hard you try to keep it out, but the more you try to bring it, it grows. This family bond is brought on by all the blood, sweat, and tears during the hard work and races you go through together. For example everyone goes through the pain or air deprivation brought on through thru hard work. An example of the pain can be doing workouts with names like “Devil takes the hindmost” or “Kenyans” whose barks (names) are not nearly as bad as their bite. All of this forms a love with those who endure the experience with you, and the love is dramatically bigger when each runner feeds off of each other and loves to do a hard workout with a crazy name.